Skateboarding legend Tony Hawk makes surprise visit to B.C. mountain town to open skate park expansion
May 29, 2025
Tony Hawk, who revolutionized skateboarding with several new tricks and helped popularize the sport through his athletic performances and a line of video games, is in Smithers, B.C., to help celebrate the expansion of the mountain community's skate park.
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The idea is one of five being put forward by an Alberta government-appointed committee tasked with studying potential tailings management options.
June 12, 2025 - 18:04 | Globalnews Digital | Global News - Canada
Former Broncos player Ryan Straschnitzki has been using a wheelchair since he was paralyzed from the chest down in the 2018 Saskatchewan bus crash. He recently put on an exoskeleton that allowed him to walk – and handle a hockey stick – again.It’s been a while since Ryan Straschnitzki looked at the world from a different perspective.The former Humboldt Broncos hockey player has been using a wheelchair since 2018, when he was paralyzed from the chest down in a bus crash in rural Saskatchewan that killed 16 people and injured 13 others.
June 12, 2025 - 18:03 | Bill Graveland | The Globe and Mail
Hillel Ontario is calling on Toronto Metropolitan University to investigate Maher El-Masri, a recently appointed interim associate dean, because the group says he has “repeatedly engaged with and spread extreme, antisemitic, and deeply polarizing content on his social media account.”
Hillel Ontario, a Jewish student organization with a presence on nine campuses across the province, including TMU, sent an
action alert
last Thursday alongside several...
June 12, 2025 - 17:46 | Ari David Blaff | National Post
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